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Staff writer Drew Dixon is joined by fellow staff writer Wade Bearden and friend of CAPC Gina Dalfonzoto discuss a question submitted by a CAPC patron member, along with the suspension of a star running back for allegedly signing autographs for money, and a lawsuit form a white mother who received a sperm donation from a black father by mistake.

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Cray Allred

Cray Allred is a wandering English major who works in technical writing by day. By night, Cray is a freelance writer and podcast producer for outlets covering sports, faith, and music. He co-founded Sunday Oldskool, a podcast dedicated to helping Christians better understand and engage the realm of hip hop. He spends the rest of his time feeling undeserving of his beautiful wife and daughters, being loved and fed at his church, and vicariously balling via an over-consumption of hoops and hip hop.
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  2. RE: What is art? (a week late and a dollar short, I know).

    My understanding of “art” is that it isn’t a product itself but the process to produce that product; it isn’t the “what” but the “how” that produces the “what.”

    I’d like to share one of my favorite passages from Plato’s PHAEDRUS, in which the protagonist Socrates offers a glimpse into the nature of “art” to the inquiring eponymous character:

    “But he who without the divine madness comes to the doors of the Muses, confident that he will be a good poet by ART, meets with no success, and the poetry of the sane man vanishes into nothingness before that of the inspired madmen.”

    In this passage, the original Greek word that Plato uses for what we translate to “art” is “techne” – I can already hear your synapses firing – and it is often simultaneously translated into “craftmanship,” “trade,” “skill.” Essentially, the “art” is in the “technique” (ah, yes: the English cognitive) – the “how” – by which the product – the “what” – is produced.

    But Plato focus more on rhetorical communication than he did pottery, paintings, or poems; so maybe the “product” that Plato was after wasn’t a tangible product his listeners could hold in their hands but the intangible feelings of pity – dare I say “pathos” – that stirred within their hearts.

    This begs the question, then: what is the product that the “artist” should strive to produce? Is it the pottery, painting, or poem (or film or video game or AT40 song) that the audience can sensually receive, OR is it how the audience ultimately feels after the reception of the tangible product is over?

    The former concerns only the artist’s own self-gratifying expression, and the selfish artist is quick to produce anything for which he can imagine himself being praised and applauded and thinks nothing of the audience – hence “bad art”.

    The latter, however, concerns the audience first and foremost and how they will receive the technique the artist has created to stir them and hopefully will get them to reconsider something they previously thought they understood wholly.

    Bad art says “feel for me” while good art says “feel with me.”

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